Lecture by Five Mualimm-ak

Lecture poster

Work by prison reform and social justice activist Five Omar Mualimm-ak is also on display at theBrush Art Gallery. Mualimm-ak spent 12 years in New York prisons and five in solitary confinement. While incarcerated, he taught himself to draw, fine-tuning his skills and finding comfort in art. He currently works with the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow and the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement.